There are strong historic links between Ukraine and
Turkey, where Tatar Crimea served as link inbetween.
Crimean Tatars speak nearly the same language as Turks
and for centuries Khanate of Crimea had been an
autonumous land within Ottoman empire. Great part of
southern Ukraine had been part of Ottoman (Turkish)
empire as well. Tatars and Turks ahd been always invading
Ukrainian lands. Many of them settled and were absorbed
among Ukrainian people. These interactions left a
significant trace in Ukrainian vocabulary. Thus many
Ukrainian words were borrowed from Turkish / Tatar
(Turkic) languages. Ukrainian exclamation Hayda!
(Go! Lets go!) derives from Turkish Hayda!
/ Haydi! (Go! Move!)
(compare this term in other Turkic languages: Tatar hayde
/ to go, Bashkir eyde
/ to go and Kyrghyz ayda / to
drive). While similar Russian exclamation Ayda!
was borrowed from Volga Tatar. Ukrainian bohatyr
(hero) also stems from Turkish bahadir
(brave, hero). Ukrainian word hamanets'
(wallet / purse) was also borrowed
from Turkic (where for example in Crimean Tatar hemiyan
or Chuvash haman means leather
purse, bag. In Uzbek it is hamen,
in Uyghur it is Hemiyan, in
Kazakh / emiyan and in Turkmen ham
stands for leather). It is interesting that many
of these Turkic / Turkish based Ukrainian words are used
with stress by Ukrainians to define their
"Ukrainianess", patriotic and national feelings
(example the central sqaure in Kyiv is called Maydan
Nezalezhnosti - Independence Sqaure,
where term "maydan" is Turkic in its origin
(from Turkish meydan - square);
or popular national Ukrainian term Berkut
(golden eagle, also the name for special
intervation security forces of Ukrainian police and Ukrainian
cigarettes brand) which was borrowed from Turkic too
(from Crimean Tatar / Cumanburkut- golden eagle ).

TÜRKÇETurkish-Turets'ka

UKRAINCEUkrainian-Ukrayins'ka

INGILIZCEEnglish-Anhliys'ka

adres

adresa

address

akademi

akademiya

academy

alasa [spelled as alasha,
also so in Crimean Tatar, and Karachay]alasha in Bulgar, lasha in
Chuvash

nis (Burunday
was the name of Tatar/Mongol leader whose armies
invaded Rus'- Ukraine lands in 13th cen). Also
Ukrainian term burun means big
"nosy" sea wave and is borrowed
from Turkic as well.

nose

burada

tut

here

can [dzhan]

dusha, zhyttya (dzhyn
as ghost is one of borrowed words for
ghost in Ukrainia)

soul, life

çay [chay]

chay, herbata

tea

çek [chek]

chek /

receipt, cheque

çoban [choban]

chaban / çaban, pastukh

shepherd

çora [chora] in Cuman,
Crimean Tatar, Kipchak

dzhura [dchura] - Ukrainian
military servant (usually boy or young man) who
carries the arms, military boy helper. Term got
into Ukrainian from Cuman or Crimean Tatar, where
chora was name not only for a boy but also for a
young man at a service of khan. Note also that
common Turkic term "cür" [chyur]
stands for together / in accordance.

boy

dag

hora

mountain

dogu

skhid

east

dakika

khvylyna (while dekilka
means a few or some in
Ukrainian)

minute

dede

dido, did, didus

grandfather

degisik

minlyviy

changable

depresyon

depresiya

depression

divan

dyvan

sofa

durak

zupynka (while durak
means stupid in Ukrainian)

stop, bus stop

duvar

stina

wall

elma

jabluko, jabko (alma
is apple in Hungarian)

apple

esas

osnova

base

esasli

korinnyy

basic

etiket

etyketka

label

evet

tak

yes

fabrika

fabryka

factory

fasulye

fasolya, kvasolya

bean

fiyasko

fiasko

fall, crash, end

futbol

futbol

soccer

Gagauz / Gagauzlar

Hahauz / Hahauzy (Gagauz / Gagauzy)
- this ethnic name stems from Turkic Gag -
Oyuz / Oguz, a tribal name of Uz (Utz /
Uzy / Utsy) people and is composed of two
Turkic words gök (blue) and tribal name
Uz. In Turkish gök means also
sky

berkut (this Ukrainian word
entered Ukrainian from Turkic languages, most
likely from Cuman, where it is burkut).
A commonly used name of Turkic origin, which in
17th century entered Polish from Ukrainian (in
Polish it is berkut, birkut). The Czechs
and Slovaks call the bird orel skalni
and Hungarians - szirtisas; in German it
is called steinadler and in Finnish - kotka.

divchyna (in Berezhany
surname Kizima is very
common. It derives from this Tatar / Turkish word
kiz, which means a girl. Since mana Tatars
settled in Adamivka area of Berezhany)

girl

kilim

kylym

carpet

kilometre

kilometer

kilometre

kimya

khimiya

chemistry

kulübe

kolyba - winter wooden house
of woodcutters Hutsuls (Hucul / Huzul /
Hutzul) - Ukrainian ethnic group in the
Carpathians of Western Ukraine. The term Hutsul
is explained in one hypothesis as stemming
from the name of the Turkic tribe of Uts / Uz
/ Utsy.

from Cuman çokrak
[chokrak] scaturgio and prefix kara
means black in most of Turkic languages)

Karatul

Karayteben

Kashlagach, Kaslagaç

from Cuman agaç
[agach] wood, tree (in Turkish the same
as in Cuman)

Kodyma, Kodima (Kademe in
Turkish)

Also city with the same name in northern part
of Odesa region, southern Ukraine. From the
Turkic word qad?n- woman, lady. Turkish kademe
means 'level', 'step', 'ledge', 'path'. Its
semantics conforms with features of the bed of
the river Kodyma.

Kolomak

Konka

Kuchuhum,Kushuhum, Koshugum, Koshohum

from Turkic kuçu kum
[kuchu kum] little sand

Kula

from Turkic kul -
hand. Right tributary of Dniester, in Moldova.

Kuma

from Turkic kum -
sand.

Kunila

Kuyalnik, Kuyalnyk

river in Odesa region, flows into the Black
Sea forming a long lake at Odesa.

Saha

from Turkic saga -
goat. River in east part of Kyiv region and
southern Chernihiv region.

Saksahan

from Cuman / Polovtsian (Turkic language
close to Turkish, spoken by Cumans, who inhabited
southern Ukraine in early medieval period), where
saxagan, saksagan
meant a snake / dragon. River in east
part of Dniporopetrovsk region.

Sasyk, Zasyk, Sosyk

from Cuman saz -
mud, sasi - dirty. Lake
in southern part of Odesa region, so called Bucak
/ Budzhak, which means corner in Turkic.
Also river in Mykolayiv region.

Tahamlyk

River in Poltava region. Left tributary of
Vorskla. From possible Turkic kaganlyk -
kaganate.

Tashlyk, Taslik

from Turkish taslik
[tashlyk] of stone, stone made,tas
[tash] stone. River in south eastern
part of Kirovohrad region.

Taylik

river in Vinnytsya region.

Tylihul, Tiligul

river flowing into the Black Sea near Odessa
in Ukraine. It derives from Turkish Deli
Göl - crazy lake.

Turunchuk, Turunçuk

River near the city of Bilyayivka, in Odessa
region, near the Moldovan border. Obvious Turkic
name.

Name of Ukrainian city Kremenchuk
(Kremenchug) derives from Turkic Kermençik
- fortification. Some of Ukrainian
village names have obvious Turkic roots as village Urman
(from Crimean Tatar Urman - forest.
Orman in Turkish)
in Western Ukraine or village Karabachyn
(from Kara bahçe - black
garden) in Zhytomyr region. The same concerns some
of Ukrainian surnames (as Karabanyk
or Kizima for example that I
know from my hometown).